Through an interview with an accountant, you need to define his professional skills and personality traits. It is quite difficult for an inexperienced manager recruitment. It is best to identify the professionalism of the candidate for the post of accountant testing method. Good specialist will not complicate correctly answer a series of accounting and legal issues, and it did not take him long. Not bad, if developed questions and tell about the economic thinking of the applicant as a whole.
The following is to listen carefully to the story of the applicant for the role of the accountant about past jobs. Be sure to ask how long he spent in each enterprise and why terminate an employment contract with the employer. A good accountant is usually not inclined to frequently change jobs. Typically, first-class experts in the field of accounting fall into the company and remain there for a long time. In the character of a person whose professional activity is related to finance and accounting, must necessarily be conservative notes, tendency to stability.
Therefore, be wary to hire accounting staff, whose employment record, there are many records of working in various companies for several months. Most likely, such a person does not have the personal qualities of an ideal accountant.
Ask the candidate why he decided to become an accountant, how much he likes the work as his training took place, what he sees for himself in the prospects of accounting. This guru accounting recognizes that a child wanted to work with documents, money that he wants to do it all my life. And the ideal accountants often do not have a high emotion and creativity. They are logical, reserved, consistent and pedantic. They are aware of the severity they are responsible, but not in their style of running away from it.